A pocket notebook sighting

[From Kansas City Confidential (dir. Phil Karlson, 1952). Click any image for a larger view, and notice the ghost letters.]

Look: he’s Mr. Big (Preston Foster), criminal mastermind, schemer of a surefire thing, and he can use that address book however he wants, see? He can write last names beginning with H, R, and K all on the tabbed A page, and he can write them out of alphabetical order if he wants. Who cares about tabs and alphabets? He can even erase the first of those names if he don’t like the way it came out, and then he can write it again — in block capitals. He’s Mr. Big, and what you call an address book — that’s just a notebook in his hands.

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As a reader points out, there’s also an EXchange name. I should have called attention to it. Thanks, Joe.

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